CB Fry

Both of those managers pretty much lost as many games as they won at Saints. As I've already said the likes of Swansea and WBA will go three, four, five without a win and still finish 8/9/10th. But if that was Saints you'd be having an epilectic fit and pronouncing us down and "fuming" after two games without a win. So don't denand consistency. You won't get it in this division from us.

You thought we would go down when we were fourth at Christmas under Strachan? That was our last Premier League season but one. And prior to that the preceding three had us with no genuine threat of relegation either. Oh well. Anyway. Mission accomplished this season, my hope was we would still be in it on the last day, and we beat that by a week. And delighted we have done it with players that seem "ours" rather than bought in mercenaries, Ramires notwithstanding. Morgan and Cork best embody this, but we have it all over the pitch. Gradually building on that core and spirit is essential next season. As it stands I am unconvinced by MP, we shall see how he fairs with his own team and pre season. But next season I do not expect "consistency". At best we'll be top eight (well, eighth) and frankly even clubs at that level are inconsistent: West Brom and Swansea have put in some rotten displays this year. As long as we hit a three month spell of amazing form, like those clubs seem to, we will be fine for solid mid table.

Plenty of us knew 39 was enough without being "we're off to the Champions League" mentalists.

Of course it was. Just a parade of bedwetting fu ckwits thinking it wasn't.

...or to sell the club to. Really not convinced the family are in football for the long term. Certainly if it means spending any more money than the club can generate themselves.

I doubt his wishes in his will were "keep my hobby going, come what may, forever". It may have been "keep my hobby going until a particular target/level is reached". Like, established in the Premier League. Like, now.

Markus may well have done that. Markus is dead.

....which Cortese and the Leibherrs have shown no interest in doing so far, not sure why they are going to start doing it now. What businesses have they got that they would want to promote to Sky Sports viewers in the UK, anyway? Genuine question, I have no idea.

Selling the club now makes brilliant business sense. The investment in the future (training ground) is sporting investment, not necessarily business investment. Selling now maximises return and the family are well out of the six monthly treadmill of "we just need two or three quality signings" that, say, Randy Lerner soon tired of. It's all cost from here on in.

For the family this is the optimal time to sell up for maximum return. The club have now been established in the top flght and the family could at this moment hand over the infinitely more difficult and expensive task of climbing into the top six. They can get out, heads high. Funnily enough I did predict that for this season but had assumed I was wrong and they were staying. Maybe, maybe not.

Nice to see my prediction on another thread this evening already coming true... Sorry Turks, you are in for probably an entire summer of pretty simple people goading you (and, of course me) on the back of something we said wouldn't happen, not happening. With the people saying it might have happened annointing themselves as being right and the people saying that it wouldn't happen being told by the same simple chaps as being wrong. You couldn't make it up on this board. But hey, we could still finish tenth chaps. Then you could really fill your boots.

I think you directed that at the wrong person. Well done.

The BBC have decided we're not safe yet. Clear anti-Saints agenda.

We'll beat Stoke next week and come in twelfth, which will be taken by the m-boarders as "proof" of us finishing tenth, and we will conclude that we are the most exciting, revolutionary, youngest, most dynamic football glory machine in Europe managed by world football's most outstanding managerial talent and we will be top six next season easy easy easy. Please expand the stadium.

The FA do not run the Premier League. Why on earth do people still think this?

Cup win all day long.

Overall control? The FA still do concentrate on the Cup and the England team. And the amateur game stuff. What else do you think they are doing?

Fancy supporting a team whose rise through the lower divisions to the Premier League was subsidised by a rich benefactor. I couldn't possibly begin to imagine how terrible and wrong that would feel.

Not really driven by Fergie though, was it?

You're not wrong. Pearson's Leicester could end up as the new Stoke, grinding their way to twelfth. Just what BT and Sky pumped several trillion quid into the league for. Mouth-watering stuff.

Why wouldn't Leicester make a go of it? As a club and city they are as big as we are, and they have decent, if not megamega-rich owners.

Being that you didn't even understand the ad in your response to it (it clearly isn't about Pompey being on TV) I wouldn't play the "completely going over your head" card with me sunshine. :Itsadisgrace:

Which makes them completely unique among fans of lower league football clubs in the UK. Completely unique.

Open goal, well taken.

...and if Pompey announced an initiative like that, it would get :facepalm:ed within two posts of it going up on here.